Assessing the robustness of projected precipitation changes over central Africa on the basis of a multitude of global and regional climate projections

Climatic Change

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 349-363

  Haensler, Andreas ^a   Saeed, Fahad ^a   Jacob, Daniela ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; LOW EMISSION SCENARIOS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS; REGIONAL CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY;

CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

DATABASE; EMISSION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CENTRAL AFRICA;

EID: 84887616588     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0863-8     Document Type: Article

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